Proud to be Australian?

So much went on yesterday that I forgot to put this up:

A judge's decision not to jail nine men guilty of raping a 10-year-old girl in an Aboriginal community has triggered outrage in Australia.

The offenders were either placed on probation or given suspended sentences for the 2005 rape in the Aurukun settlement, in northern Queensland.

In her ruling, Judge Sarah Bradley told them that the victim "probably agreed to have sex with all of you".

(Source: BBC: Rape case ruling shocks Australia)

THE prosecutor at the centre of the case in which six attackers escaped jail time for the gang rape of a 10-year-old on Cape York has been stood aside, pending an investigation.

Queensland Attorney-General Kerry Shine last night said the Director of Public Prosecutions would investigate the conduct of Steve Carter, the senior legal officer responsible for Cape York matters, in the DPP's Cairns chambers.

Court transcripts released yesterday showed Mr Carter had described the 2006 incident as "childish experimentation" and consensual "in a general sense".

The girl was gang-raped at the age of seven in Aurukun on Cape York in 2002, and was later put into foster care with a non-indigenous family in Cairns. However, child safety officers in April 2006 returned her to Aurukun, where she was raped again at the age of 10.

(Source: TheAge: Gang rape prosecutor stood down)

Yep. That's right.